Drake had to do 9 shows in London because of the demand on that tour btw lol, in the same venue The Weeknd had two shows at. he's just scared of it performance wise

You have a habit of omitting information to make your narrative look better.

Drake did eight shows at the O2 in 2017, and sold a total of 128,523 tickets. Amazing numbers.

For some reason, you compared The Weeknd’s two 2017 London shows instead of what he’s currently doing in London, and this conversation has been about these two artists at this current moment in time.

On the After Hours til Dawn Tour, Weeknd did only two shows at London Stadium and sold a total of 159,574 tickets and then did a third show at Wembley Stadium and sold 89,179 tickets, breaking an attendance record for that venue. A total of 248,753 tickets sold in just three shows.

You said Weeknd has “barely” grown in Europe since 2017, but I think selling 34K tickets in two shows compared to 248K tickets in three shows in one of the biggest cities in Europe is a whole lot more than just “barely”

And if we really wanna take it there, Drake returned to do seven shows at the O2 in 2019 and was only able to sell 80% of the available tickets (98K sold of 121K available tickets)

All of the dates on that Assassination Vacation Tour weren't sold out, and that was an all European tour

yes, you missed my point lol. Drake's arena tour was bigger than Weeknd's arena tour in 2017 & 2019. Weeknd hasn't grown in europe since then. If he can do stadium tours there, Drake 100% can

Especially since Drake has factually sold WAY more records in Europe than the Weeknd lol, especially the UK, it's not even close in the UK, I already proved that to you & you ignored it because you can't worm your way out of it lol.

Nah they all sold out, he just never reported the date for the final show
There's a reason the missing numbers are exactly 22k (the capacity of the o2)

got an hr to burn so lets look at Germany
offiziellecharts.de/suche search drake
offiziellecharts.de/suche search weeknd

Drake 64 entries, 7 top 10, 2 #1s
Weeknd 41 entries, 6 top 10s, 1 #1

Even in Germany, a country that's pop dominated Drake has had more chart success

Note how One of the Girls peaked at 53 in Germany too lol, 21 in UK officialcharts.com/artist/22895/weeknd

"global hit" my ass that s*** was local to asia

Spain
spanishcharts.com/search.asp?search=drake&cat=s
spanishcharts.com/search.asp?cat=s&search=the+weeknd

Drake 5 top 10s, 1 #1
The Weeknd 4 top 10s, 1 #1

Blinding Lights never went #1 there, peaked at #5, whilst One Dance went to #2

sheez the more I look at charts from around europe the more it looks like a huge part of BL's success was Asia

5 in a row! unemployed activities
NL since we had a nutter talking about that! @Lefkok
dutchcharts.nl/search.asp?search=The%20weeknd&cat=s the weeknd
dutchcharts.nl/search.asp?search=drake&cat=s drake

The Weeknd 7 top 10s, 2 #1s
Drake 10 top 10s, 3 #1s

Blinding Lights weeks at #1 = 7
One Dance weeks at #1 = 14

s***s getting ugly.
Drake also has more #1s and top 10s than Taylor Swift in the UK, Netherlands, Spain and Germany
a crazy fact is Taylor has never had a #1 single in Germany, Netherlands or Spain. Lol

Schizophrenia

The official numbers of every single stop on that tour are not full capacity, you are literally wrong

So an artist has two arena shows in a city and they’re only able to sell 34K of 36K available tickets

Then, 7 years later they come back to the city and sell 250K tickets in three shows

And they haven’t grown in that country at all?

You say Drake has grown in Europe since then, but he’s the one that returned to Europe post-2017 and did less touring numbers

I’ve literally never seen someone employ logic as broken as this

hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

Seems like for most these countries you are ignoring weeks on chart which actually shows how strong bl and other songs are

I didn’t even realize he was omitting this

One Dance did 52 weeks on that chart

Blinding Lights did 142

You think weeks top 100 is more important than # of weeks at #1?

Official numbers according to what lol? I know Drake's o2 success, they were all sold out

All of Weeknd's shows in the UK in 2017 sold out, so i have no idea what you're talking about

Are you really trying to say that if an artist does 1 show in a city on tour #1, then 5 shows in the same city 2 years later, they've grown by 5x? Lol that isn't how touring works

Drake could have sold out 50 shows in London in the o2, so could The Weeknd, there was insane demand for both of them. Drake's 2019 o2 tour sold out in minutes of going on sale lol

This back and forth is entertaining af

Posting factual evidence proving you morons wrong = schizophrenia

Weeks top 10 on uk album chart

After Hours 7 (1 week #1)
Starboy 9 (0 weeks #1)
BBTM 7 (1 week #1)

(note how BBTM spent the same amount of weeks top 10 as AH, even with people tryna say he grew like mad with AH lmao)

For all the Flops 5 (1 week #1)
Her Loss 3 (1 week #1)
CLB 9 (2 weeks #1)
Scorpion 12 (3 weeks #1)
Views 22 (2 weeks #1)

Drake is genuinely twice as big as this guy in the UK lol it's not even fair

You might be the dumbest person on this site

The weeknd definitely grew his audience with blinding lights

Proved wrong and then proceeds to insults, again, classic